Cowbridge Cricket Ground is a
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...
ground in
Cowbridge
Cowbridge ( cy, Y Bont-faen) is a market town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, approximately west of the centre of Cardiff.
The Cowbridge with Llanblethian community and civil parish elect a town council.
A Cowbridge electoral ward exists for ...
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Glamorgan. The first recorded match held on the ground came in 1895 when the creator of the ground, E H Ebsworth's XI played The Rev'd Owen Jones' XI.
Overview
The early years saw the ground being used by the Ebsworth XI, The Glamorgan Gypsies and Cowbridge Wanderers. The Wanderers were given the opportunity to purchase the ground at a price significantly less than the original cost and construction. The Wanderers were re-formed into The Cowbridge and District Athletic Club which remains the parent body to the sporting sections.
Glamorgan played
Northamptonshire
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two unitary authorities: North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire. It is ...
in a ground first
first-class match in the 1931
County Championship
The County Championship (referred to as the LV= Insurance County Championship for sponsorship reasons) is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales and is organised by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). It bec ...
. In 1931 and 1932, the ground played host to four first-class matches, two each season, the last of which saw Glamorgan play
Somerset
( en, All The People of Somerset)
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In local domestic cricket, the ground is the home venue of Cowbridge Cricket Club.
Cowbridge Cricket Club
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References
External links
on CricketArchive
on Cricinfo
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Buildings and structures in the Vale of Glamorgan
Sport in the Vale of Glamorgan
Cricket grounds in Glamorgan
Glamorgan County Cricket Club